# expenses - Monday 4 March, 2013
Several people in a new survey said their financial situation had become so tight that they had to leave their car off the road for weeks or even months.
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# expenses - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
On National No Smoking Day, Joan Conway tells how she gave up smoking at 45 – after first taking up the habit at the tender age of 17.
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# expenses - Saturday 19 January, 2013
The bureaucracy, waste and profligacy of the EU repulses many people, writes Aaron McKenna – so is it any surprise the UK might want to exit?
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# expenses - Saturday 22 December, 2012
€16,079 worth of expenses were deemed to be ‘ineligible’.
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# expenses - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
There’s also an across-the-board cut for political expenses, while severance pay for office holders will be scrapped.
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# expenses - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Yes, expenses need reform – but we need a larger conversation too, writes Sarah O’Neill.
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# expenses - Friday 2 November, 2012
The Committee on Standards and Privileges said the illegitimate expenses claims by MacShane were worth £12,900 (€16,070) but that he had since repaid the amount in full.
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# expenses - Monday 1 October, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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224 of the 226 members of the Dáil and Seanad were paid allowances in August, even though both houses were in recess.
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# expenses - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
More than two thirds of people surveyed have a pension – but many are finding it too difficult to keep up with monthly financial commitments.
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# expenses - Saturday 1 September, 2012
Did the technical glitch affect you? Are you happy with the compensation package?
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# expenses - Monday 27 August, 2012
It has been suggested that outstanding bills be automatically deducted from TDs’ and senators’ wages if left unpaid after three months.
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# expenses - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
Latest Kantar figures show strong growth for Tesco in last quarter, while Aldi and Lidl are increasing their market share.
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# expenses - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Quinn said she expects her father will join his son behind bars as the family is unable to purge their contempt.
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# expenses - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
The latest Bord Gáis Energy Index cites supply issues and eurozone weakness as pushing fuel up.
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# expenses - Friday 3 August, 2012
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Payments to former Taoisigh for secretarial allowances continued until March – despite Enda Kenny telling the Dáil they would end in January, TheJournal.ie can reveal.
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It’s almost the long weekend…but here’s nine things to know first.
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# expenses - Friday 6 July, 2012
If TDs are found to be misusing travel allowances but didn’t know about it, writes Eoin O’Malley, maybe the rules are the problem…
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# expenses - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
Authorities in the Houses of the Oireachtas have already said that they too are talking to lawyers over whether TDs can use travel expenses to attend meetings.
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The Socialist Party TD has defended her use of travel expenses for going to meetings around the country urging a boycott of the household charge.
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# expenses - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
A statement said the Oireachtas “had never envisaged” that TDs would use the allowance for travelling to meetings about the household charge.
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Independent TD Thomas Pringle said that he did not use expenses to travel around the country to urge people to boycott the household charge as other independent deputies have done.
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# expenses - Monday 2 July, 2012
The Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins has said it is okay that deputies use their travel allowances for the purposes of travelling the country urging people to boycott the household charge.
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# expenses - Thursday 28 June, 2012
Leinster House affirms that Pearse Doherty’s travel expenses would more than cover the amount he received.
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# expenses - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Sinn Féin says its finance spokesperson has received conflicting information from the Oireachtas on his use of €8,000 in travel allowances to hire staff and whether he can retrospectively put it towards the cost of a car purchase.
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# expenses - Tuesday 26 June, 2012
The Sinn Féin TD wants to put the money used for the employment of constituency workers towards the cost of a car in order to satisfy Oireachtas rules but it’s not clear if he can.
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# expenses - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Ireland ranked overall as the fifth most expensive place for consumer goods and services last year.
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# expenses - Saturday 9 June, 2012
Exactly how many Irish people are looking for work and can’t find it? And when is a Leaving Cert not a Leaving Cert?
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# expenses - Thursday 7 June, 2012
Consumer price index was unchanged between April and May but shows increases in education, transport, food and services over 12 months.
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# expenses - Saturday 28 April, 2012
The former Fianna Fáil TD was arrested on suspicion of using a false invoice to claim for mobile phone expenses.
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# expenses - Friday 27 April, 2012
Reform of the Oireachtas expenses rules in March 2010 means reportage on fraudulent mobile phone expenses can’t be repeated.
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# expenses - Saturday 14 April, 2012
We thought it would be interesting to ask for a copy for a random TD’s receipts for what they spent their vouched expenses on. We were turned down. This is why.
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# expenses - Friday 13 April, 2012
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.
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TheJournal.ie first reported in February how a tweak to the expenses system meant TDs could claim twice for some costs.
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# expenses - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as any of the bits and pieces you may have missed.
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